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Summary: Best horror movie ever....
Review: I watched this for the first time two halloweens ago and watched it that night, then i bought each movie in the series the very next day since I was amazed how much gore they could put on the screen.
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Summary: A definite horror classic
Review: This movie is just one of kind, great fun, very bloody. Not necessarilly really gory, I always look at gore to be maybe alot of decapitation and showing guts, however this movie had some of that but not enough to think of this as the goriest movie ever. But it is one of the bloodiest and wildest. Story of course involves some college students going up to a somewhat abandon cabin and the evil starts from there and how they unleash it, you must see for yourself. The acting was well ok, however Bruce Campbell himself did awesome, I think he is a great highly underrated actor. This movie is very scary, or exciting if you will as it is also very funny sometimes, like when the possessed women say funny statements like (kill her if you can loverboy, and Were gonna get you not another peep, its just so corny yet funny.) Gets you back to enjoying the movie instead of wanting to get grossed out or terrified. The work on the demons or zombies, though they didnt seem like major flesh eaters, just demons in human form are quite excellent, the rough sketching and so on. Anyone that doesnt like this film, in my opinion, you just shouldnt like horror in general because this is a damn straight horror classic and will stay that way. If you like entertaining, keep you guessing type of horror movies then see evil dead. I love the whole series, but the first one is more of a major horror movie then the others, however they are all outstanding. Dont be fooled by the ending, there is more of that too come. Also I think I figured out why Evil dead 2's storyline was so similar to this one, find out my theory on my Evil dead 2 review. Well enjoy this completely great horror movie, its one of the best.
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Summary: The Most Aptly Named Movie - Ever
Review: They're dead. And they're evil. They're evil dead. Pretty well says it all. Bruce Campbell and friends spend a weekend in an out-of-the-way backwoods cabin, where they discover strange artifacts, a black magic grimoire, and a tape-recording by an anthropologist afraid of what he's found. The anthropologist reads chants from the book onto the tape...and all hell breaks loose. This is the movie Night of the Living Dead wanted to be, and wasn't. It's the ultimate zombie picture. Its low-key, low-budget approach works brilliantly. The suspense has never been bettered, and never lets up. The film starts out very slowly and quietly, building to fever pitch, and when it jumps out and says "boo," it does so to great effect. It also manages to engage the emotions in ways you wouldn't expect. Despite the fact that you know it's a movie, it still leaves you feeling terrified and wrung-out, long before the ambiguously unsettling finale. In addition to the really gruesome decomposition effects, there's an incredible scene in which one of the young women at the cabin is high-speed tracked through the woods, to be overtaken and raped by...a tree. Not for the squeamish, but definitely for zombie-film lovers, and those that enjoy really nail-biting, grimacing horror.
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Summary: Watch it if you can, loverboy!
Review: There's a whole world out there in the ultra-low budget horror movies, specially those made in the 1970's, before the MTV era. Sam Raimi's 'The Evil Dead' is a clear example. If you are one of those people who make this movie an all-time cult favorite (I know I am) this edition will be very good, second only to the Special Book-of-the-Dead Edition. The picture and sound quality is excellent, the best I've ever seen in an Evil Dead DVD. Any imperfection you may find is justified (remember, this is a 1970's ultra-low budget), but what really makes this edition a worthy buy is the features. Both commentaries are great, and the one with Bruce Campbell is not to be missed, since is full of funny anecdotes and facts about the production of the film (actually, he never stops talking). In fact, both commentaries are a master class in film-making inventive. The deleted scenes are very good too, presented in a rough cut, but they're shown in a carrousel, so you can't access them individually. As for the picture gallery, it's very original, since it gives you not only images from the movie (like most DVD's do), but also pictures that were took from the premiere, and some nice material on the original posters. Definitely, the only flaw I can see in this edition is that, once again, we are left with no closed-captioned or subtitles of any kind, and that's a big no-no in my book. So in conclusion, I would give the movie 5 stars and the edition 4 stars.
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Summary: Evil dead kicks ass!!!
Review: Here you got the complete uncut verison of "The evil dead" on a nice DVD and Necronomicon. All pages are not in tis one, but who cares? It is the nicest edition of the evil dead series i ever have seen.Buy it now if you want it couse it is limited!
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Summary: AWESOME HORROR MOVIE
Review: Now this is what I call a Horror movie. Gore, Plot, Setting, and most of all Mood. From start to finish this movie is entertaining, and contains some of the most awesome special effects and Killing I have ever see. BODILY DISMEMBERMENT! At it's best. Bruce Campbell is Ash and is later to become the sole survivor of the events to take place in the Evil dead. Wu ha ha! The story takes place in the woods in an old cabin left by the researcher of the book of the dead who is Mysteriously is killed off. A group of college kids, homestead in the cabin and soon find the book and the tape recorder, and then all hell breaks loose. A must see for any horror fan.
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Summary: Still brilliant
Review: I almost laugh myself to death whenever I see this movie, it is excellent, funny and by far the superior of the series. However, it is expensive for a 20 year old movie, regardless of the pretty packaging and extra features. ...P>However, it is nice to see the movie uncut for the first time in a while, it has been to long since the full version was available in the UK.
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Summary: Raimi ROCKED in his directorial debut
Review: Simply a great little movie! Raimi's budget was low but he set his sights high to bring us a super flick. If you haven't already seen this movie or heard about it, you must be from another planet. All horror fans KNOW this pic. Now, for this DVD...it rocks! The behind-the-scenes extras and the beautiful transfer makes this movie seem fresh and new again. Well worth the purchase to watch over, and over, and over, and over.....
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Summary: The Book of the Best Horror Film Ever!!
Review: Wow!!! Could this really be? The Necronomican in my hands? It's like a dream come true! Finally I know how great and powerfull it feels to hold the ancient fleshy book in my hands! This is definetley the best packaging I have ever seen or felt! It was incredible. I had just gotten it,I opened it up out of it's plasticy cover and I put my hands on it. Talk about a cool feeling. It actually felt as I would have imagined it and another huge plus was the page replicas of the actuall book of the dead pages in the movie. I found myself holding it up and turning to the pages Bruce Campbell was looking at while I was watching the movie. The packaging alone deserves a flat out 5. The DVD itself is an awesome thing too. I watch it almost every day now,after school,at night,and on the weekend. Some cool special features were Fanalysis,a 30 minute look at fandom,what posseses people to be the fans they are,conventions(including Evil Dead conventions),and an inside look on Bruce Campbell and what he thinks of fans. All hosted by the man himself. Another somewhat decent 18 minute flick was Discovering Evil Dead. Somewhat boring because it is just a bunch of Brits talking about how they found Evil Dead and how they introduced it to Europe. Only 18 minutes but seemed like forever. Then there was the outtakes and behind the scenes footage which is good for a laugh to see the possesed try to use scary voices and embarrissing annoying laughs without the voice modifiers. Also good for an occasional funny face from Bruce between takes. All in all this is probobally the best DVD I have ever seen or watched. And as for the movie itself...well you already know. A true movie classic and the mother of all horror films...period!
Cool Secret!!!- In the summer when it gets really hot,take the DVD out of the book and place it in your freezer for 15 to 20 minutes. When you take it out the humidity will react to it and it will feel like sticky sweaty flesh! It will work,I promise you!
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Summary: *SPLAT!* "Ohhhhh, noooo!"
Review: Sam Raimi's "Evil Dead" is one of those hit-or-miss affairs with everyone; you'll either love it for it's humor and gore, or hate it for it's humor and gore. I'm one of the fortunate individuals who recognize just how much fun and entertaining this film is. Granted, "Evil Dead 2" is slightly better, but the way I figure it, you watch each individual film in the Evil Dead trilogy with a particular frame of mind - "Evil Dead" - watch it for the blood and cool camera work. "Evil Dead 2" - watch it for Bruce Campbell and MORE cool camera work. "Army of Darkness" - watch it for Bruce Campbell and the outrageous humor. The reason I didn't put Bruce Campbell as a reason for watching "Evil Dead" is because his Ash character isn't the ultra-cool cheesy superhero we all love from the two sequels. However, his reactions are very funny when he continuously gets drenched in blood and... milk? This Book of the Dead DVD edition is pretty "groovy," indeed. The package itself obviously looks great, and you'll have some fun straining yourself trying to decipher the lettering in the pages of the book. It's chock-full of extras including three documentaries and two seperate commentaries (I'd recommend listening to Bruce Campbell's first). But the only problem I have with this edition is the way the disc itself is inserted on the inside of the back cover. Each time I've taken the disc out, a new scratch appears on the surface of it. I can't help but wonder how many times I can remove this movie from it's case and watch it before my disc is completely ruined. So my advice to all of you is to buy this as a collector's item (it is a limited edition, after all) and to be extra careful when handling the disc. If you liked "Evil Dead," you'll want to buy the sequels. So fire up the DVD player, pull up a chair, sit back, dim the lights and, as the DVD booklet states, bring a towel.
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